As AI rapidly reshapes how we live, work, and relate, it’s also beginning to transform how we die, how we are remembered, and how our legacies, both personal and digital, are preserved.

Matt joins me to explore where machines meet mortality, memory, and meaning. With decades of experience at the forefront of AI, ethics and future technologies, Matt is helping shape how the world thinks about humans and machines evolving together.

But this isn’t just a conversation about death and data or what it means to be human in the age of AI; it’s also personal. Matt and I talk about his own death preparation - his resistance, the shift, and how preparing now softens the grief and administrative tasks our children will face in the aftermath of death. To prepare for and be accountable for your own death is a simple yet powerful final act of love because it is not just about responsible AI, it’s about responsible dying.

Since recording this podcast, Deadicate has been developing an AI companion - LWELL.

LWELL is a gentle end-of-life AI guide - a collaboration between heart and technology, making end-of-life planning more accessible, easily resourced and actionable across the practical, emotional, physical, and spiritual dimensions of dying and grieving.

We will continue to learn and evolve LWELL. This is where responsible dying meets responsible AI.

Meet LWELL – your gentle AI end-of-life guide here : https://LWELL.ai

Links & Resources:

Learn more about and listen to Matt Kuperholz (https://www.linkedin.com/in/kuperholz/)

The evolution of AI—how we can solve for trust | Matt Kuperholz | TEDxSydney (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEpV9lE_EFo)

Culture and AI: How ChatGPT works, and changes the Future of Work (https://www.youtube.com/watch?2JvqjPkb7s8)

More on the OR initiative here : https://www.morh.org

Join the Deadicate community here: https://deadicate.com/

This podcast is hosted by Baci Hillyer.

Visit my website (https://www.deadicate.com/) or follow me on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/__deadicate__/?hl=en) for more information & resources.

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Recorded and Produced by Michael Burrows

(https://www.michaelburrowsmusic.com/)

Edited by Granger Lock @ Brand Music (https://brandmusic.com.au/)